Iraq war in a nutshell.
A used book I bought a few days ago had the following as an introductory quotation.
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
Albert Camus
The book is To Seek a Newer World by Robert F Kennedy, published in 1967.